Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield, sentence 52
Thus, for instance, some who wanted to go to a very grave assembly of elderly men, where important affairs were to be discussed, found themselves in a noisy boys' school, where all the company were leaping over the chairs and tables.
Who acts: some, company · What happens: want, go, discuss, find, leap · To what, where: grave assembly, important affairs, affairs, school, chairs
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (some, company), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 8 wanted | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Thus | punct |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 instance | case |
| 4 | instance | instance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wanted | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 instance | punct |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 wanted | nsubj |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 wanted | nsubj |
| 8 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 go | mark |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 wanted | xcomp |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 assembly | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 assembly | det |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 grave | advmod |
| 14 | grave | grave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 assembly | amod |
| 15 | assembly | assembly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 go | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 men | case |
| 17 | elderly | elderly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 men | amod |
| 18 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 assembly | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 discussed | punct |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 26 discussed | advmod |
| 21 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 affairs | amod |
| 22 | affairs | affair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 discussed | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 discussed | aux:pass |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 discussed | mark |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 discussed | aux:pass |
| 26 | discussed | discuss | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 men | acl:relcl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 found | punct |
| 28 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 wanted | conj |
| 29 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 28 found | obj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 school | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 boys | det |
| 32 | noisy | noisy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 boys | amod |
| 33 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 school | nmod:poss |
| 34 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 33 boys | case |
| 35 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 found | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 leaping | punct |
| 37 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 42 leaping | advmod |
| 38 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 40 company | det:predet |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 company | det |
| 40 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 leaping | nsubj |
| 41 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 leaping | aux |
| 42 | leaping | leap | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 35 school | acl |
| 43 | over | over | ADP | _ | 45 chairs | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 chairs | det |
| 45 | chairs | chair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 leaping | obl |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 tables | cc |
| 47 | tables | table | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 chairs | conj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 wanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | some | for instance; thus property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | some not said here | a grave assembly of elderly men | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to assembly=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | discuss speech: other | past · passive | some not said here | important affairs | vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 4 | find | past | some not said here | affairs = affair | a noisy boys's school | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Topic | |||
| 5 | leap | past · progressive | all company | the chairs and tables | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over chair=Trajectory |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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